EMBL's new AI unit is recruiting. We are seeking a machine learning scientist to establish their independent research group bridging innovations in machine learning/AI with modern biology. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

22/n On a personal note, I’ll soon start an independent research group in the Genome Biology Unit at EMBL Heidelberg. If you enjoy this type of work and want to engineer genomes at the largest scale, please reach out! jonas-koeppel.github.io/koeppellab/ www.embl.org/groups/koepp...

A must read for anyone who cares about eukaryotic genomes

Postdoctoral job announcement: come to Cambridge and work on population genetic modelling with environmental and ancient DNA, jointly with @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social and me. Details at www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55580/ - applications by June 16th.

⚠️ new preprint: Chromatin accessibility of primary cancers informs regional mutagenesis in metastases through multi-scale deep learning. led by @hanlijiang13.bsky.social @moleculargenetics.bsky.social @oicr.on.ca www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... [1/3]

1\ Excited to finally share some of my PhD work: OpenSplice! We measured how >590,000 mutations affect exon inclusion across 600 human exons, creating a resource to study splicing regulation, benchmark variant effect predictors, and support variant interpretation.

Genetic analysis of circulating metabolic traits in 619,372 individuals @nature.com @kauralasoo.bsky.social @unitartupress.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"In this study, we present a genome-scale map of genetic interactions in the human haploid cell line HAP1, based on CRISPR-based perturbation of ∼4 million gene pairs. The resulting network comprises ∼89,000 high-confidence gene-gene interactions" doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Indeed.. here is "generate the first page of a great Nature paper that will get lots of citations. It must be very novel."

We Are on the Cusp of a Revolution in Rare Disease Treatment www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/o...

+1 to perhaps not utopian relabeling the world, but gently moving to directly describing the mutation impact in biophysical terms as destabilizing, aggregation-inducing, interface-destroying, etc.; and the higher level phenotypes as a function of these protein qualities, not of mutations!

AI x BIO 2026, 8-10 June Submit an abstract now! >450 registered last year coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/ai-x-b...

Do you plan to analyse lots of genomes? Or few that are large? One or multiple species? Join us for the course on analysing data at scale! (and yes, it will involve a lot of k-mers!). With @katiejenike.bsky.social and others... @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @connectingscience.bsky.social

A big thank you to everyone who attended in-person and online our One-day meeting: David MacKay: Energy and Information on Friday. @cambridgephysics.bsky.social @eng.cam.ac.uk An unedited live-stream is available to watch on YouTube: youtube.com/live/unuuHyd...

🧬 We're hiring scientists! I'm building a new team at the Generative Biology Institute, Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, next to colleagues in AI, Robotics, and Plant Biology.

Great to present our work on MAVEs as part of www.ebi.ac.uk/perturbation... at #VariantEffect26 - always a very enjoyable meeting!

Meet evedesign: open-source AI, accessible protein design ✅Combine models for multiobjective optimization ✅Integrate experimental data ✅ Run on your own infrastructure 📄Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 💻Code: github.com/evedesignbio 🌐Webserver: evedesign.bio Collaborate: [email protected]

Join us on the 27 March for our One-day meeting: David MacKay: Energy and Information. @cambridgephysics.bsky.social @eng.cam.ac.uk 27 March 2026, 09:00 – 17:45 Details and booking: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...

New Perspective form Rory Maizels & me: "Gene regulatory networks: from correlative models to causal explanations" Gene regulatory networks are supposed to give us mechanistic explanations of development, so why are we drowning in 'hairballs' of statistical correlations? rdcu.be/e7zx7

Now published! www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Share insights on using multimodal biological frameworks at #BiologyAtScale26 🧬 Contribute towards multidisciplinary knowledge exchange, and bridge gaps across genetics, cell biology, and human health. 📅 29 June -1 July 2026 Submit an abstract by 20 April ➡️ bit.ly/4mYud02#BiologyAtScale26 #ComplexTraits 🧪

New preprint on technologies to scale up CRISPR screens. We use them to map 665,856 pairwise genetic perturbations and outline a path to comprehensive interaction mapping in human cells. We also introduce an approach for cloning lentiviral libraries with billions of elements.

Looking to start your lab in generative biology / AI? Come join us at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Sanger is core-funded so you can generate data at scale to train the next generation of models and understanding. Design/Engineering/Chemistry/Proteins/Pathways! pls RT tinyurl.com/GenGenFaculty

Somatic and germline mutational processes across the tree of life https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.28.691837v1

Are you interested in biodiversity genomics? Fantastic opportunity to join us as a Group Leader at the Tree of Life Programme, @sangerinstitute.bsky.social. 👇 sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/Wellco...

New preprint from our lab, spearheaded by @maelledaunesse.bsky.social and in collaboration with Diego Villar! In which we ask, can we detect joint signatures suggestive of positive selection on transcriptomes and epigenomes?

A key step towards human genome synthesis. With thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social @mrclmb.bsky.social #SynHG doi.org/10.1126/scie...

please share this postdoc job alert! come join the budding Biodiversity Cell Atlas initiative as a postdoc or senior postdoc at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social working closely with @arnausebe.bsky.social and me to make progress on what we cover in this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Claudia Feng's Ph.D work is now out, co-led with @brittavelten.bsky.social and @steglelab.bsky.social . Large-scale CRISPRi perturbations in genetically heterogenous iPSC lines, with single cell readout - enjoy :)

⚠️New study: we mapped DNA-binding of topoisomerase TOP2B in cancer, uncovering surprising hotspots of DNA damage. TOP2B, normally essential for DNA stress relief, can act as a double-edged sword. co-led by @LiisUuskula @ChristianLee, out now @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... [1/7]

Really pleased to share the first paper to come out of the lab. We found that hospital patients were frequently colonised with P. aeruginosa and that the same clone was shared between the gut and the lung. The phylogenies indicate that the clones moved from lung->gut www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper “Proteome-wide model for human disease genetics” is now live at Nature Genetics: rdcu.be/eRu7K popEVE (pop.evemodel.org) finds the needles in the haystacks of human genetic variation:

final week to apply for @sangerinstitute.bsky.social PhD programme (due Nov 27th) -- free to apply, open to anyone anywhere, and a superb training opportunity for students interested in genomic approaches applied to biodiversity, pathogens, vectors, and of course us pesky humans.

We are looking for a postdoc to join our team! If you're interested in translating a cutting edge genomics technology (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) to real-life applications in hematology, this is for you. We offer a unique working environment ON THE BEACH: recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...

Our new preprint is online! Viruses, bacteria and parasites use effector proteins to evade immunity and rewire host cell pathways. Together with @AlexanderStark8, we wondered if we could systematically map what these effectors, regardless of their origin, do in human cells. 1/8

Major new direction in the lab: hacking human cell biology with pathogen effectors (eORFs) - amazing collaboration with @miketilapia.bsky.social lab. Huge congrats to first authors Tomas & He & all co-authors! Check out the pre-print on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join us and these amazing speakers next March'26 at Synthetic Biology for Health and Sustainability - an international conference held at the Wellcome Genome campus near Cambridge UK. Abstracts deadline: December 1st, 2025 Register here - x.com/gallowaylabm...

Congratulations @hilarycmartin.bsky.social from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social on being awarded the 2026 Balfour Lecture!

Congratulations to Richard Durbin on being awarded our Genetics Society Medal!

New paper on everyone’s favourite topic, QC! We show why you should do genotype-level QC on your WGS data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Very real quotes about this paper - “The most exciting, mind-blowing paper of the year!” “On a par with Fisher 1918” “I read it every night. Just so beautiful”

tinyurl.com/GenGenFaculty GenGen is hiring group leaders! If you want to generate data at scale to train the next generation of AI models to make molecular biology predictive and programmable, we want to hear from you.

New 🧬✂️ pre-print! We show that paired prime editing can efficiently generate large deletions — even >1 Mb — with high precision and at scale. We use this to perform the first pooled prime deletion screen across the human genome. 🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread (by Juliane Weller)👇

The "High-Content CRISPR Screening" conference will take place on March 18-19, 2026, in Vienna, Austria. Don’t forget to register and submit an abstract! Conference website: perturb2026.bio Meet the Speaker: @leopoldparts.bsky.social

TF-MAPS: fast high-resolution functional and allosteric mapping of DNA-binding proteins by @XianghuaLi2 Are Transcription Factors really 'undruggable'? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Please RP! A 4-day synbio and tissue engineering conference #MASSIV to transform biology and medicine together. Couldn't list all amazing speakers, so please check out this 👉https://www.massivconference.com/ Poster due is Nov 7, but will be extended. With @stemcellnetwork.ca and JST.

🎉 New in #GENETICS: Functional Genomics & Systems Biology section! Highlighting cutting-edge studies on molecular networks, systems-level insights, and innovative methods. Read more: buff.ly/wWVZdrS%F0%9...

Celebrating the first 1000 genomes of Lepidoptera in Europe, sequenced at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social in collaboration with sampling hubs across the UK via the DToL project www.darwintreeoflife.org & across Europe via @projectpsyche.bsky.social www.projectpsyche.org & @10klepgenomes.bsky.social

We've been screening across many DNA construct structures with variable number/size of interesting regions - e.g. spacer, extension and barcode for prime editing. There wasn't a widely used tool to process these complex structured reads so I ended up developing github.com/allydunham/d....

Our latest work is out in Nature today. In this paper, we introduce an improved version of NanoSeq, a duplex sequencing protocol with <5 errors per billion bp in single DNA molecules, and use it to study the somatic mutation landscape of oral epithelium in >1000 people www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share that this work together with @opentargets.org is now out at Nature Communications.